Secular Witch

I tell the true story and nothing but the truth to the council.

I then vague blog the nutshell of what I said in the most vague way possible.

I'm not looking for answers. I'm setting expectations and following through with magical enforcement.

I am happy to explore philosophy and morality, but I am not changing my personal goals through witchcraft, if that makes sense. Now some people define spiritual as "working with spirits" - which I don't particularly care for because it overly simplifies the word spiritual and takes a run for it with regard to kind lead into atheism. I hate to mention that this is a thing that pops up a lot in discussions between what is secular and what is religious. It's somewhat a calling card of a specific kind of atheist who looks down their nose at anything that seems "religious-y" so spirits, gods, etc are all "religious" in their definition because that's how they have been considering them because they tend to have grown up in christianity where those things are very common. They don't associate spirit in terms of the spirit of a location. They associate spirits with "the other" or "the other world" or something not of this particular domain when you get into it.

So it runs into the problem of what is a spirit, and how does it interact, and under what conditions, which is why I fucking hate this definition because it presumes much and is basically a "gotcha" lead in question which assumes anything in the realm of non-human = religious. But there are plenty of religions surrounding literal humans (and no, I don't mean Jesus christ. I'm thinking of the religion of Lady Gaga which I ran into a while back with someone's pagan and witchcraft practice focusing heavily on Lady Gaga, and they must be having a field day and I hope they are doing awesome!). Because the assumption is the presuming that their definition of what a spirit is is universal and most importantly, that it matters. Your definition of a spirit does not matter to me. Ultimately what matters to me is how I have experienced something and how the thing I have experienced defines itself. It's why I don't refer to some things I have experienced as gods and some things I have as gods. I can't just be holding a self-deterministic label - I also respect the labels I am provided.